did shaggy get the win????

Shaggy got the win! yahoo!

And all the hits! The HITS! Everyone we sent up to the plate got at least one.

And I agree, we can't let the terrorists win.

Hot dang Shaggy won AND got the shaving cream pie!

YES HE DID!!!!!! congrats shaggy!!

Torii, 1 more to go for a career high!

ps. for cubbie fans, Zambrano hit another dinger today :-) ***bear hug*** love him!

I couldn't find this game on TV. Was it on something other than FSN?

no, Torhu. today's game was not televised in MN, unless you have Extra Innings.

Magic number 3

Soooo... if the Tigers (who are winnin 15-0 :( ) have a better record than the Yanks, and we get the wild card, do we play Detroit?? Cause that would be kick-ass..

No, the team with the best record can't play the wild-card team in the first round if they are both from the same division. The only way we would not face NY in the first round would be if the A's end up with the best record in the AL or we take the division and NY finishes better than Oakland.

The wild card team plays the team with the best record, unless they are from the same division. So the only way we would not face the yankees in the ALDS is if we win the division, or if oakland develops the best record.

yeah, I need someone to explain this post season schedule stuff to me too..

wow Jlubby, almost word for word... scary

I was excited for Guerrier... and Torii... and Rondell. I haven't counted Torii out for reaching 100 RBIs, and I think one would be foolish at this point to think he can't make it. Someone lit a fire under him and he may just be our hottest player heading into the playoffs. I have criticized Hunter with the rest of them, but I am EXTREMELY glad he is a Twin right now. (Please keep in mind that, while I did criticize him, it was not because I didn't like him, it was more of a "how much is this guy worth?" criticism.)

I'm still kind of antsy about the Twins winning the division. I think they could and should win the division. Like Batgirl, I also do not think that how many times we play the Yankees is so important. However, unlike Batgirl, I think we do have more to play for than momentum. I think we still have a shot at home-field for the playoffs. I don't know about you, but I sure would like to be in the Dome when we play the Yanks!

Anyway, it's down to days until we're officially in, and I am basking in the glow. Who woulda thought at the beginning of the season that Boof, LNP, Neshek and Bartlett would be keys to our success?! Congrats, guys!

And here I was thinking Shaggy would get his first ever BOD. But Torii's dinger and fine defensiveness were well deserving so I can't complain. From the radio interview, it sounded like Shaggy was appropriately appreciated by his team mates.

These are the ones you just have to gut out, and while it's too bad the Mariners fell asleep during the 23 hour rain delay, both teams are still on pace to have the last series of the season not matter. And won't that be nice to see? Hello White Flags, welcome to the Metrodome. No, nothing you do matters. But do have a seat anyway, won't you? Oh that starting pitcher? I don't know, just some guy we're taking a look at.

Darn FOX for the silly rules that didn't let FSN show the game today. But it did allow me to listen to the game, with the Orioles' feed, on XM. Can't tell whether Joe Angel is that good or whether it was just a relief to be able to follow along with the action while listening to the radio.

MLB.tv blocks out Saturday games before 7pm... so I didn't get to watch it either. Poo. I'll take the win, since both the Bitchsox y los Tigres won. Rough first inning for the Landed Gentry... their poor pitcher didn't even make it through it.

1 more for Sweetcheeks! Let's go for 30.

there were a lot of great things, there were a lot of terrible things.

but can we talk about rondell going 4 for 4? because i don't know about you, but i think watching a struggling veteran come back and be amazing after so many people had given up on him is pretty much the greatest thing ever.

i love rondell.

Thank you BG, for your fearlessness regarding the Yankees. I am not afraid of them. DO YOU HEAR ME, YANKEES?!! I am not afraid of you and neither is my team.

Well done, Torii. Well done, boys. There were pretty things and ugly things in this game. But we won and that's what I am taking from it.

Mr. Baseball:

Going back to his days in Miami (and even that ever-so-brief period when he did a season for - you guessed it - the Twins), I am of the opinion that Mr. Angel is good.

His jokes are a bit like Torii's 3-1 swings - if they miss, he'll just try it again, but harder. My family thought it charming (this is what you get when your 9-year-old's sense of humor is goofy). I do concede that others preferred to think of him as 'annoying.'

The XM home-team feed does showcase some interesting things, tho. The Bitch Sox radio guys are nowhere near as annoying as their TV crew - in fact, their caustic cynicism during that lovely 2-of-3 series at the Cell was fun to hear, in a schadenfreudesque way (was that really almost a month ago?). The Texas crew is wonderfully descriptive (right down to the red piping on the Twins' road jerseys). And the Boston announcers are quite likely undiagnosed Alzheimer's patients. All are preferable, in my mind, to Gordon.

I'm getting a tad off-topicky here, tho. Go, Shaggy. Go, Torii. 30/100, please, and if you don't mind, could you do it on a a soul-crushing, game-winning three-run jack off Neal Cotts? Just to put an excalamation point on things, of course.

We are only 2 games behind the Yankees despite the fact that our mvp has hit 1 h.r. in the last 31 games,and had 1 single in our 19 hit attack yesterday. So, my question is:what is the tiebreaker for league's best record, which would give that team hfa throughout the post season? Should that have been a period?

Al, I believe I heard that the tiebreaker is the team that has the best record against the teams in their division (giving NY the advantage in that case).

First tie-breaker is head to head for HFA. Second tie-breaker is record within division. Twins and Yanks finished 3-3 against each other but Yankees did better in ALeast than Twins did in AL Central. Yankees beat Detroit head to head.

What I dont understand is why WB50 in Washington who had rights to the game didnt pick it up till an hour in--so I missed big play on Cuddyer strike out. (Washington is in Baltimore region for MLB Extra Innings so I cant get feed that way).

DAM

Thanks,so tying the Yankees won't do, nor will tying the Tigers as they won the season series from us; how bout if we tie the A's {an unlikely proposition}? I think we would win that one.

al,

The Yankees and Tigers would hafta collapse significantly for a Twins-A's tiebreaker to come into play, but the Twins would get home field advantage in that one.

And while Morneau isn't smacking home runs, he's 22-for-61 (.361) in his last 15 games. Last year he got into trouble when he tried yanking homers when teams were feeding him crap. This year he's been good at going to the opposite field. And his power void has certainly been mitigated by the fact that a guy named Hunter, who bats right behind him, has 6 homers during those games and Rondell has chosen the stretch to start banging the ball.

Best, RD

p.s. Go Bears!

Way to go, boys! I was very pleased to hear the outcome of yesterday's game (I didn't get a chance to listen to it on the radio, and it wasn't on TV). I really hope Torii hits 30 homers this season. Congratulations to Mr. Matty G for his first career win. Also a big handshake for Rondell. I didn't know it was possible for him to get four hits in one game.

Those 2 losses, especially El Presidente's where, I fear, crippling. Detroit is too good for us to blow opportunities like that. I don't see us overcoming the ligers and the evil empire now, we're running out of time.

I was getting impatient with the bartender when he could not find the game on the big screen TV. He was trying to shut this middle aged woman up so he could go back to talking to the sweet young thing at the end of the bar. Pulling my trusty schedule out of my purse and realizing my mistake resulted in a big tip for the poor guy. Husband rolls eyes at me. No tantrums today.

Ron, he was hitting well when he was hitting homers also; 5 hole hitters who hit homers are de riguer, or something like that, for winning teams. I think it is the same 5 for 5 curse that affected Mauer and Bartlett.